Murrumbidgee electorate

The Murrumbidgee electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elected five members at the 2016 ACT election.

Murrumbidgee
Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly
TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory
Created2016
NamesakeMurrumbidgee River
Electors59,323 (2020)
Area250 km2 (96.5 sq mi)
Federal electorate(s)
Coordinates35°18′40″S 148°59′38″E
Electorates around Murrumbidgee:
NSW Ginninderra Kurrajong
NSW Murrumbidgee Kurrajong
NSW Brindabella Brindabella

History

Murrumbidgee was created in 2016, when the five-electorate, 25-member Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly, replacing the previous three-electorate, 17-member system. The electorate is named after the Murrumbidgee River which flows through the electorate, with the word "Murrumbidgee" meaning "big water" in the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language.[1]

Location

The Murrumbidgee electorate consists of the Woden Valley suburbs of Chifley, Curtin, Farrer, Garran, Hughes, Isaacs, Lyons, Mawson, O'Malley, Pearce, Phillip, Torrens, the Weston Creek suburbs of Chapman, Duffy, Fisher, Holder, Rivett, Stirling, Waramanga, Weston, the Molonglo Valley suburbs of Coombs, Denman Prospect, Whitlam and Wright, the South Canberra suburbs of Deakin and Yarralumla, and the eastern portion of the Tuggeranong suburb of Kambah.

On the original boundaries contested in 2016 Murrumbidgee included the entire suburb of Kambah. However the boundary redistribution conducted in 2019 transferred the western portion of Kambah to the Brindabella electorate in exchange for gaining the suburbs of Deakin and Yarralumla from the Kurrajong electorate.[2]

Members
Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
2016 Bec Cody Labor Chris Steel Labor Caroline Le Couteur Greens Jeremy Hanson Liberal Giulia Jones Liberal
2020 Marisa Paterson Labor Emma Davidson Greens
20221 Ed Cocks Liberal

1Giulia Jones (Liberal) resigned on 2 June 2022. Ed Cocks (Liberal) was elected as her replacement on countback on 20 June 2022[3]

See also

References
  1. "Electorates 2016 election". Elections ACT. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. "Electoral Boundaries Redistribution 2019" (PDF). Augmented ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. "Casual vacancies in the tenth Legislative Assembly (2020-2024)". www.elections.act.gov.au. Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
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